Hello everyone, it's been a while since my last update. Regarding this, I have both good and mixed of the reasons I have been slow with this particular work, despite the fact that it has been plaguing my mind for months, is that I felt dissatified with some of the content.
I didnt know how to properly explain why there would be Servants in Chaldea without a Master to properly connect them to the supporting systems or why would the UN and the Mage's Association willingly let an army of Servants stay summoned without a "leash" of sorts to ensure their cooperation and keep at bay the most volatile or cunning of them (I mean, a lvl 5 Kiyohime or further will never accept commands from anyone but her "Anchin-sama"). While the Servants staying there helps explaining Martha, it does not hold for the Servants being there in the first place.
The second problem I had was coming with ideas to justify this, which only ended up bringing more side characters that would eventually lose purpose as the story entered it's own versions of Mirror of Fate and LOS2 (Yes this is a big project).
Thirdly, one reviewer correctly pointed out how Cornell's fight was a bit underwhelming and I have to agree. My Gabriel vs Gabriel fight in Lord of the Forsaken was a one duel done without any comparison so it worked better, but anyone who has played or seen a playthrough of Lords of Shadow can compare the OG version with the one I provided. The Lords of Shadow are supposed to be very dangerous and no just in their cunning. I dont want to go Shonen Levels of absurd or even jump into Godjuna vs Karna Rojo levels of epicness, but they need to feel like a threat that forced the Gabriel to get the Dark Gauntlet. The fact that I gave priority to soundtrack above lenght may also have contributed to this situation.
Finally, I didnt feel I caprtured anything close to the good writing of Typemoon or Lords of Shadow since I rushed to the first Lord of Shadow and wasted potential bonding or just worldbuilding. I want Gabriel, Mash and even Martha to iteract more before the first of the great fights, and I want them all to ponder on the current situations they find themselves in.
Fortunately, I have finally found a solution for these issues, which brings me to the mixed news. This story is getting rewritten, withut fully rebooting what you have seen so far. I apologize if this frustrates you and prefered that I wrote more content, but I need to make justice to both franchises and the characters that drove me to begin this project in the first place.
Once I have this corrections done, this message will be replaced, and followed by a new chapter
Hope you have a good weekend, and once again thank you for the reviews!